internalize
verb (used with object)
to incorporate (the cultural values, mores, motives, etc., of another or of a group), as through learning, socialization, or identification.
are internalizing
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present progressiveof internalize.present progressive
Used to describe an ongoing action or state that is currently taking place in the immediate present.
Example Sentences
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“With this, as we improve, we are internalizing this information better.”
From Washington Post ● Feb. 28, 2022
I was really proud of the way they are internalizing the story in Aneesha.
From New York Times ● Oct. 21, 2021
“For some people, that’s the hospital. … But others are internalizing that something bad is going to happen to them, because of all the statistics and stories.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 18, 2021
If our children are internalizing the message that female success is the cause of male failure, and male violence and male backlash, we are all in monstrous trouble.
From Slate ● Jun. 16, 2018
Slowly, scientists are internalizing the lessons of this irreproducibility crisis.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 16, 2018
